SAFE PLACE STATUTE

SAFE PLACE STATUTE

(1)Every employer shall furnish employment which shall be safe for
the employees therein and shall furnish a place of employment which shall
be safe for employees therein and for frequenters

thereof and shall furnish and use safety devices and safeguards, and shall
adopt and use methods and processes reasonably adequate to render such
employment and places of employment safe, and shall do every other thing
reasonably necessary to protect the life, health, safety, and welfare
of such employees and frequenters. Every employer and every owner of a
place of employment or a public building now or hereafter constructed
shall so construct, repair or maintain such place of employment or public
building as to render the same safe.

(2)
(a) No employer shall require, permit or suffer any employee to go or
be in any employment or place of employment which is not safe, and no
such employer shall fail to furnish, provide and use safety devices and
safeguards, or fail to adopt and use methods and processes reasonably
adequate to render such employment and place of employment safe, and no
such employer shall fail or neglect to do every other thing reasonably
necessary to protect the life, health, safety or welfare of such employees
and frequenters; and no employer or owner, or other person shall hereafter
construct or occupy or maintain any place of employment, or public building,
that is not safe, nor prepare plans which shall fail to provide for making
the same safe.
(b) No employee shall remove, displace, damage, destroy or carry off any
safety device or safeguard furnished and provided for use in any employment
or place of employment, nor interfere in any way with the use thereof
by any other person, nor shall any such employee interfere with the use
of any method or process adopted for the protection of any employee in
such employment or place of employment or frequenter of such place of
employment, nor fail or neglect to do every other thing reasonably necessary
to protect the life, health, safety or welfare of such employees or frequenters.